Don't Have Time For/Don't Got Time For?

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We don't have time for this.

We don't got time for this.

1) Are these the same?

2) Is the second acceptable and natural?

3) Is the second more American than British?

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We don't have time for this.

We don't got time for this.

1) Are these the same? Yes

2) Is the second acceptable and natural?t No. It's sub-standard English.

3) Is the second more American than British? I don't know.

Clive

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anonymous3) Is the second more American than British?

Yes, according to the Google Ngram Viewer.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=don%27t+got+time%3Aeng_gb_2019%2Cdon%27t+got+time%3Aeng_us_2019&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdo%20not%20got%20time%3Aeng_gb_2019%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdo%20not%20got%20time%3Aeng_us_2019%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2Cdo%20not%20got%20time%3Aeng_gb_2019%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdo%20not%20got%20time%3Aeng_us_2019%3B%2Cc0

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